CMS controls - common properties

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The following properties provide configuration options for selecting Kentico CMS documents to most of the CMS Navigation and Standard listings and viewers controls. Please be aware that certain controls only use some of these properties:

 

Property Name

Description

Sample Value

CheckPermissions

Allows you to specify whether to check permissions of the current user. If the value is 'false' (default value) no permissions are checked. Otherwise, only nodes for which the user has read permission are selected.


ClassNames

Specifies which document types should be selected. Several values separated by a semicolon can be entered.

"cms.news"

or

"cms.news;cms.article"

CombineWithDefaultCulture

Indicates whether documents from the default culture version should be used if they are not available in the selected culture. This property is applied only if you do not set the TreeProvider property manually.


CultureCode

Culture code of documents to be selected, such as en-us. If not specified, it's read from the user's session or the default value is used.

"en-us"

DataSource

Gets or sets a DataSet containing values used to fill the items of the control.


FilterOutDuplicates

Indicates if duplicated (linked) documents should be filtered out from the data.


MaxRelativeLevel

Maximum relative level of child documents that should be selected. -1 selects all child documents.


Path

Path of the documents to be selected.

 

See Path specification for details.

See Path specification for examples.

SelectOnlyPublished

Indicates whether only published documents should be selected.


TreeProvider

Tree provider instance used to access data. If no TreeProvider is assigned, a new TreeProvider instance is created automatically.


 

CMS base - common properties:

 

The following properties provide basic configuration options to most of the CMS Navigation and Listings and viewers controls. Please be aware that certain controls only use some of these properties:

 

Property Name

Description

Sample Value

CacheDependencies

List of the cache keys on which the cached data depends. When the cache item changes, the cache of the control is cleared. Each item (dependency) must be on one line.

 

If you leave this property empty, default dependencies will be used.

 

Please refer to the Caching topic to learn more.

cms.user|all

CacheItemName

Name of the cache item the control will use.

 

By setting this name dynamically, you can achieve caching based on a URL parameter or some other variable - simply enter the value of the parameter.

 

If no value is set, the control stores its content in the item named "URL|ControlID".

 

Please refer to the Caching topic to learn more.

"mycachename" +

Request.QueryString["id"].ToString()

CacheMinutes

Number of minutes the retrieved content is cached for.

 

Zero indicates that the content will not be cached.

 

-1 indicates that the site-level settings should be used.

 

This parameter allows you to set up caching of content so that it doesn't have to be retrieved from the database each time a user requests the page.

 

Please refer to the Caching topic to learn more.


ControlTagKey

Overrides the generation of the SPAN tag with a custom tag.


FilterControl

Gets or sets the appropriate filter control used to limit the data read by this control.


FilterName

Gets or sets the code name of the appropriate filter control used to limit the data read by this control.


OrderBy

Gets or sets the ORDER BY clause of the SQL statement.

"NewsReleaseDate DESC"

SelectedColumns

Database table columns that should be loaded with documents, separated by commas ( , ). Null or empty indicates that all columns should be selected.


SiteName

Specifies the code name of the site to be used by the control.


StopProcessing

Indicates if processing of the control should be stopped and the control should not retrieve or display any data.


TopN

Specifies the maximum amount of rows that should be selected.


WhereCondition

Gets or sets the WHERE clause of the SQL statement.

"ProductPrice > 100"

 

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